India beat Pakistan by 88 in Women’s Cricket World Cup to top points table

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Goud and Sharma prima with the shot successful Colombo to springiness the tourney hosts their 2nd successful 2 games, portion Pakistan suffer 2 successful two.

India stormed to an 88-run triumph against Pakistan successful their highly anticipated ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 encounter successful Colombo, and moved to the apical of the points array with 4 points.

Tournament hosts India posted 247 successful their 50 overs, having been bowled retired connected the past shot of their innings connected Sunday successful bowler-friendly conditions successful the Sri Lankan capital, which is hosting each of Pakistan’s matches arsenic a neutral venue.

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Pakistan stuttered and collapsed successful reply and were enactment nether unit close distant by young Indian seam bowler Kranti Goud, who took 3 wickets for 20 runs successful her 10 overs.

The squad successful greenish struggled with the conditions and the value of the opposition, who person present beaten them successful each 12 of their meetings successful one-day internationals.

The lucifer drew much than the accustomed attraction owed to the ongoing governmental tensions betwixt the South Asian neighbours, who were progressive successful a four-day equipped and aerial struggle successful May.

Much similar the men’s fixtures betwixt the nations astatine the caller Asia Cup, determination were nary handshakes astatine the flip nor astatine the extremity of the lucifer betwixt the sides.

The flip went Pakistan’s mode and, having been enactment in, India mostly laboured to their full aft a beardown bowling show connected a transportation that had spent 2 days nether covers owed to the caller rainfall successful Colombo.

There was a just stock of writer inactive connected the top, but it was the magnitude of moisture, done sweating nether the covers and the rainfall, which was the astir noticeable facet of the surface.

India’s batter Jemimah Rodrigues, who deed 32, noted astatine the interval that the shot was “stopping” successful the surface.

Pratika Rawal (23) and Smriti Mandhana (31) gave India a solid, if slow, commencement successful a 48- tally concern that came to an extremity disconnected the past shot of the ninth implicit arsenic the erstwhile was trapped lbw by Fatima Sana (2-39).

Harleen Deol appeared to beryllium anchoring the innings with a good 45 but holed retired to long-on, handing Rameen Shamim (1-39) her lone wicket and possibly looking for a large changeable to scope the milestone.

India’s full was their highest successful ODI cricket without a batter reaching fifty. Richa Ghosh’s unbeaten 35 disconnected 20 threatened to forestall that stat, and her onslaught complaint near galore baffled arsenic to wherefore the wicketkeeper-batter lone came successful astatine eight.

Seamer Diana Baig’s 4-69 was the prime of the bowlers for Pakistan, albeit astatine a precocious system rate.

The innings was besides elongated by 20 minutes erstwhile the players were asked to permission the tract arsenic a fumigator was brought successful owed to the fig of flies affecting the play. To what grade the measurement worked was arguable, arsenic players continued to conflict the bugs throughout.

The reply couldn’t person got disconnected to a worse commencement for Pakistan, arsenic they were reduced to 26-3 successful the 12th over. The plaything for Renuka Singh Thakur and Goud was proving adjacent unplayable.

Thakur was unlucky to extremity her spell wicketless, partially owed to dropped catches and the remainder owed to lbw decisions that didn’t spell her mode nor were reviewed by India’s skipper Harmanpreet Kaur.

Sidra Amin and Natalia Pervaiz began the fightback with a concern of 69 for the 4th wicket coming successful 16 overs. The dilatory commencement was hurting Pakistan, and erstwhile Fatima – successful astatine six – managed lone 2 disconnected 14 balls, India’s grip connected the crippled tightened.

The autumn of Amin’s wicket successful the 40th implicit proved to beryllium a fatal stroke for Pakistan, who were past bowled retired successful the adjacent 3 overs.

Pakistan’s skipper Sana rued the missed run-out opportunities and misfields arsenic she believed her squad should person restricted India to a sub-200 total.

“In the commencement of the powerplay, we gave distant a batch of runs,” she said aft the match. “In the decease overs we besides gave distant immoderate other runs.”

India’s skipper Kaur, meanwhile, was afloat of praise for her bowling attack.

“Kranti [Goud] was outstanding,” Kaur said successful her post-match comments. “The spinners besides helped to get breakthroughs. We created truthful galore chances, but we dropped a few. In the extremity , we are happy.”

India question backmost location for the remaining limb of their radical matches and look South Africa connected Thursday.

Pakistan volition play their remaining games successful Colombo, wherever they conscionable defending champions Australia connected Wednesday.

Neither federation has ever won an ICC ODI oregon T20 World Cup.

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